I bought some items and downloaded them using istall manager, now I can't find them.g

If that path is not setup in Daz you may need to tell Daz Studio where to find the files using the content directory manager.

Is the "little gear" you're talking about supposed to be in your PrintScreen image above somewhere?

Because I'm not seeing it.

OK, thanks! 

Come to the dark side, DIY. Manual is easy, and doesn't lose your stuff ;)

DIM is easier and doesn't loose stuff if you take the time to set the preferences.

Quote - DIM is easier and doesn't loose stuff if you take the time to set the preferences.

That might be debatable, but I'm just saying DIY is an option and if I can do it any one can. 

"The more complicated the plumbing the easier to stop up the works"

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

It is not debatable, once the user preferences and download filters have been set DIM does all the hard work.

There are two problems i find with DIY

1. You don't know when Daz has updated something, unless someone else has the same thing and posts in that thread.

2. You have to manually watch stuff, with the DIM, you can set it off in the background with a tick and a click.

"I know where my content is because I put it there" Me.

And how well does DIM; or CMS for that matter, work with content from say, ohh, here? Share3D? Hivewire? Shall I continue the list? It isn't a short one. You say it doesn't? Reason enough for me to not get used to it. I wont be chained down to one content broker by some helper app I have no need of.

Don't updated items go to the top of your products list at DAZ?

lol DIY is hard work lol

DIM is useless to me. DAZ never bothered to make any rhyme or reason to where items are installed.

You end up searching all over for everything.

I was just thinking how much I wished Renderosity had something like DIM today as I was DLing and installing my purchases. DIM is so easy once you set it up. I have multiple comps that I render from and I can keep my Library up to date on them with 1 click, plus the aforementioned benefit of knowing when products get updated.

There is a third party tool I found recently, a DIM zip maker.  I had some non-Daz3d products I got and used the DIM maker to make an IM file, and I tried 4 times, 3 worked (and I think I messed up the fourth, havn't tinkered with it yet)

DIM is nice because if you have too much stuff, you can add/remove it back and forth without problem, and it manages what's in the CMS for you.

In the DIM, once you have downloaded and installed, RIGHT CLICK on the product line (under the "installed" tab) and choose: show installed files. 

A little box will pop up showing the exact path everything was installed to. You can also click on one of those paths and it'll open up the folder it is installed in. 

I download the item, unzip it, check it, cut, paste, done. I know my content is where it is suposed to be, no searching my comp to see where DIM put it, no set up reset up needed when going from the Studio libaray; where I only have genesis/G2 stuff, to one of many runtimes. DIM just will not work for me and I am not going to rebuild a bunch of runtimes to use it. As in toss it all in to some crap conglomerate runtime in the Studio libarary where I will never be able to find any of it again.

Note this works for content from everywhere/anywhere.

DIM will install whereever you tell it to and came multiple library entries, just be sure to have the Show Details box checked at the bottom of the Ready To Install tab.  And of course open the utility to full screen size.